Gunnery Sergeant Grae

One of the things I love about Warhammer is that you can create your own characters, just make sure you don't make them too good, and let your buddy know everything about your character first, that said lets check out one of my own character's I've created.

Gunnery Sergeant Grae is based on the model Gunnery Sergeant Harker, however, instead of a heavy bolter I gave him an eviscerator, and instead of Catachan Devils, I gave him grenadiers.

Grae's Grenadiers is a unit I had always wanted, their a hybrid of Cadian and Catachan models, and I love the iconography of their poses I posed them in. I gave them all shotguns, except for a flamer, and as soon as I order some more models I will pay the extra 6 or so dollars for 5 meltaguns, and put one or two in the unit as well. Grae is the same points as Harker as he isn't much of a deviation, and the feel no pain comes in handy when assaulting (more often than not Grae is the only one left standing after an assault or two).

Now for experienced Guard players your probably thinking "assaulting with Guard?" well I didn't start out to make him that way, I made what would in my opinion be a cool Sergeant, and saw Harker and thought "gee I don't really care for heavy bolters... and an eviscerator sounds cool, if I was a Gunnery Sergeant I would certainly want the biggest sword of the bunch, and as a veteran who's not to say he could have picked one up?" thus Grae was born. Since he wasn't a Catachan, and infiltrating an assault unit like this is a little unfair, I took Catachan Devils out. Without Catachan Devils, grenadiers could come in. Grae is a phenomenal unit though, well worth his points, and adds a unique flare to my offensive capabilities.



A true story about this model:
I was playing a game against a Tau player, and he had a large gunline taking cover behind his remote (he wasn't a gamer who liked to make terrain, and I hadn't brought any). This gunline was just far enough away so that my platoon couldn't shoot it, but the Firewarriors could certainly hit my men. Not only that, but there was a smal groop of Kroot taking cover in a jungle (made of paper lol) and they were 6" in the jungle so I couldn't shoot them, and yet again my enemy could shoot me. This was obviously a bit of a perdicament for me. Grae and his boys ran out of the ruins the platoon was in, while mortars fired at the Kroot. With the jungle between Grae and the Firewarrior gunline, he was safe from thier AP 4 rifles, and the Kroot were pinned by a lucky mortar shell. Grae and his lads charged into the jungle, Eviscerator purring, shotguns roaring, and flamer belching. After a merciless slaughter of the 11 remaining Kroot, my mortar managed to pin one of the Firewarriors squads. Grae's men still took heavy casualties as they pressed on though, losing 4 men, and passing the ensuing morale check. Soon after my flamer killed over half the squad of Tau, and the shotguns finished off the rest. The other ten man squad however had an open 20 shots at my men now... they killed all of the veterans... except Grae, thanks in no small part to his Fell No Pain rule. Grae soon found himself at their throats, and killed the entire squad by himself, with WS4 the Tau were no match. Grae however met his doom at the hands of a Crisis Suit the next turn. But if it were not for the brave actions of he and his squad, that platoon would have probably been killed in those ruins. True story (well as true as a story can be that portrays the actions of models lol).